ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,229,523, issued on Feb. 18, was assigned to TENCENT AMERICA LLC (Palo Alto, Calif.).

"Search-engine-augmented dialogue response generation with cheaply supervised query production" was invented by Linfeng Song (Bellevue, Wash.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Method, apparatus, and non-transitory storage medium for neural network based dialogue generation, including receiving an input dialogue context, and generating queries based on the input dialogue context using a query generating neural network. The query generating neural network may be trained using a cheap noisy supervision function. The method may further include retrieving respon...